I'd be sad over 41-point loss, too.
If you've glued your hands to your chair, which is glued to the floor, with the TV station fixed on ESPN, then you've seen how much of a disaster college basketball has been. For those who are boring and have no interest, allow me to bring you up-to-date:
Last Wednesday, another #1 team fell to the hands of a second-tier conference rival. Wake Forest was aimed to keep a perfect season when they hosted Virginia Tech. The Hokies aren't too terrible at basketball, they've knocked off teams like Duke and North Carolina in the last three seasons, and they've been making their tournament appearances (even if they bow out early to crap teams.)
Carrying the same attitude in previous games when they play spoiler: The Hokies just didn't give a damn. Their defense held, the offense scored when they needed to, and they got more than 10,000 people in black and gold to shut up. Wake Forest's dream of finishing the season undefeated and number one lasted one week (however, such dreams should only last a week.) It was embarrassing to see. Good for the Hokies--They're trying to not suck. Not good for the ACC or number one's in general. Nothing is safe.
The same thing went for perennial Big Ten leader Michigan State, who appeared to be the only member of the conference worth watching this season. On the same night that Wake Forest quit basketball, Northwestern paid a visit to the Breslin Center in East Lansing. If you're not that familiar with Wildcat sports, they don't seem to care much for winning. The only thing they want to win are multi-million dollar grants and the top spot in the U.S. News and World Report rankings for best school. Wednesday night was one of those nights that NU student-athletes said "F the Quantum Physics exam" and decided to play. The Wildcats went into one of the toughest places to play in the nation and beat then-#7 Michigan State by seven.
Seven must be the lucky number, right? Could Maryland start the crazy weekend and upset second-ranked Duke by such a margin?
Hell no.
The Terrapins got trucked. Manhandled. Raped. Maimed. Embarrassed. What a disastershow it was at Cameron Indoor Stadium today. When I had first awoken, I read the scoreboard feed, only to see
(In the second half:)
Duke 60
Maryland 20
Umm...why? Who pissed Duke off? Michigan? It's understandable if that was the case, but in all seriousness, Maryland looked like they belong the MAC or the Patriot League. The final score was 85-44 in favor of the Blue Devils, but it was just embarrassing to see such garbage on my television set.
Here, I was thinking this weekend was going to be a great one for sports fans. It's exciting, yes, but the majority of these games have been a waste of time for me and many fans (See: Michigan State, Wake Forest) I just hope Notre Dame decides to show up tonight against Connecticut since this is the last day that they'll keep their home court win streak. I hope the months of February and March show up to be a little kinder.
Carrying the same attitude in previous games when they play spoiler: The Hokies just didn't give a damn. Their defense held, the offense scored when they needed to, and they got more than 10,000 people in black and gold to shut up. Wake Forest's dream of finishing the season undefeated and number one lasted one week (however, such dreams should only last a week.) It was embarrassing to see. Good for the Hokies--They're trying to not suck. Not good for the ACC or number one's in general. Nothing is safe.
The same thing went for perennial Big Ten leader Michigan State, who appeared to be the only member of the conference worth watching this season. On the same night that Wake Forest quit basketball, Northwestern paid a visit to the Breslin Center in East Lansing. If you're not that familiar with Wildcat sports, they don't seem to care much for winning. The only thing they want to win are multi-million dollar grants and the top spot in the U.S. News and World Report rankings for best school. Wednesday night was one of those nights that NU student-athletes said "F the Quantum Physics exam" and decided to play. The Wildcats went into one of the toughest places to play in the nation and beat then-#7 Michigan State by seven.
Seven must be the lucky number, right? Could Maryland start the crazy weekend and upset second-ranked Duke by such a margin?
Hell no.
The Terrapins got trucked. Manhandled. Raped. Maimed. Embarrassed. What a disastershow it was at Cameron Indoor Stadium today. When I had first awoken, I read the scoreboard feed, only to see
(In the second half:)
Duke 60
Maryland 20
Umm...why? Who pissed Duke off? Michigan? It's understandable if that was the case, but in all seriousness, Maryland looked like they belong the MAC or the Patriot League. The final score was 85-44 in favor of the Blue Devils, but it was just embarrassing to see such garbage on my television set.
Here, I was thinking this weekend was going to be a great one for sports fans. It's exciting, yes, but the majority of these games have been a waste of time for me and many fans (See: Michigan State, Wake Forest) I just hope Notre Dame decides to show up tonight against Connecticut since this is the last day that they'll keep their home court win streak. I hope the months of February and March show up to be a little kinder.
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